Motivational Quotes

Children

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Children

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.